The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
This work is Kevin Connor's response to what he saw in the aftermath of the Gulf War in Iraq in 1991. Above the remains of charred corpses on a trolley, two imaginary dark figures float ominously in the foreground. A bulldozer is busily clearing the debris of war. Shattered buildings, tanks, a plume of dark smoke in the distance, the yawning gulf of open space and the pitiless heat, all heighten the mood of loss and despair.
This painting won the 1991 Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, judged by Jan Senbergs.
Kevin Connor's drawing depicts the lives lost and ruin to the city of Najaf, Iraq, at the end of the Gulf War in 1991. A man wheeling a wagon in the lower half of the drawing collects charred figures
Portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Clifford M. Acree, U.S. Marine Corps., taken as Prisoner of War (P.O.W.) January 1991, Iraq. A Red Cross plane carrying 35 former allied prisoners of war, including 15 A